Obama's flip flopping is getting a little much. He supported the D.C. gun ban until the Supreme Court struck it down then he reversed and said people should be able to have guns. He is opposed to drilling and we should plan on $12/gallon gasoline. He refuses to acknowledge that the surge has worked in Iraq. It is the first time a presidential candidate has opposed a successful military action. This man is not qualified to be president!
The following was posted on the Joel Rosenberg's blog:
Thursday, July 24, 2008
OBAMA BACKS AWAY FROM PLEDGE FOR AN "UNDIVIDED" JERUSALEM: Calls his own AIPAC speech a "mistake"
Sen. Barack Obama made a surprise visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem this morning, before leaving Israel for Germany. It was another good photo op for the junior Senator from Illinois. Nevertheless, many in Israel are feeling stunned by the Senator's statements in recent days backing away from a pledge he made in June supporting an "undivided" Jerusalem. Last night on ABC News, the Senator actually called his clear and powerful defense of Jerusalem -- delivered just last month at a conference of the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) -- a "mistake."
Consider the following string of statements:
* June 4, 2008:
"Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided." (Sen. Barack Obama, Remarks At The Annual AIPAC Policy Conference, Arlington, Virginia)
* June 5, 2008:
Candy Crowley, CNN: "I want to ask you about something you said in AIPAC yesterday. You said that Jerusalem must remain undivided. Do Palestinians have no claim to Jerusalem in the future?"
Sen. Obama: "Well, obviously, it's going to be up to the parties to negotiate a range of these issues." (Interview with Sen. Obama, CNN's "The Situation Room," June 5, 2008)
* July 22, 2008:
Katie Couric, CBS News: "You said not too long ago that Jerusalem should remain undivided. And then you backtracked on that statement. Does that play into the argument that some believe that someone more experienced would not have made that kind of mistake?"
Sen. Obama: "Well, if you look at what happened, there was no shift in policy or backtracking in policy. We just had phrased it poorly in the speech. That has happened and will happen to every politician. You're not always gonna hit your mark in terms of how you phrase your policies. But my policy hasn't changed, and it's been very consistent. It's the same policy that Bill Clinton has put forward, and that says that Jerusalem will be the capital of Israel, that we shouldn't divide it by barbed wire, but that, ultimately that is a final status issue that has to be resolved between the Palestinians and the Israelis." ("Obama: Surge Doesn't Meet Long-Term Goals," CBS News, July 22, 2008)
* July 23, 2008:
Charlie Gibson, ABC News: "And then there's the issue of Jerusalem. You've said in the speech, to AIPAC, Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel. And it must remain undivided. When you said that did you not realize the significance that that has for so many people in this region?"
Sen. Obama: "Well, number one, the fact is that Jerusalem is Israel's capital. And so I was simply saying a fact, with respect to --"
Gibson: "You said 'must remain undivided,' (crosstalk) those are code words."
Obama: "Well the issue of it being undivided, I have said and I said immediately after the speech that that word was poorly chosen, that what I was referring to is making sure that we're not setting up barbed wire across Israel --"
Gibson: "But Senator, it was a very simple, declarative statement. It must remain, and you started the paragraph by saying, 'Let me be clear'--"
Obama: "Charlie, the day after, or the day of making the speech I conceded that the wording was poor, and it's immediately corrected --"
Gibson: "Rookie mistake?"
Obama: "Well I wouldn't say rookie mistake, I think that veterans make mistakes as well." ("Gibson Interviews Obama," ABC News, July 23, 2008)
posted by Joel C. Rosenberg @ 6:58 AM
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